[Sca-cooks] Seeking More Cheese info

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 9:25 AM, wildecelery at aol.com wrote:

> Somewhere out there...
>
> I've been told that it's in Menagier...there's a poem on buying  
> cheese....
>
> Does anyone have a good  idea where i can find it in both French  
> and English  9 Still wokring on my own period cookbook  
> collection......

Well, it's here in English with an accompanying bit of somewhat  
similar text (but not a direct translation) in Latin:

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html

I found it by searching for the word "Magdalene", a word I know  
appears in the verse and AFAIK, not too many other places in Le  
Menagier.

>
> Also....
>
> I'm looking for a good, definitely period, main-dish recipe that  
> incorporates cheese (specificall either generic cheese, or farmer's  
> or fresh cheese ) as one of the main ingredients....

The mushroom pasties, also in Le Menagier, call for cheese, and some  
(myself included) have interpreted this as a fair amount of cheese,  
rather than as a seasoning.

Gotta watch out for that specifically generic cheese, though. It'll  
getcha every time ;-)

Adamantius



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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
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"Confessions", 1782

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